Installing Sun Grid Engine on Amazon EC2

Alexey Bokov — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:54:45 +0000

As base AMI i used ami-7db75014 – it’s OpenSolaris supported by Sun, common informartion about installing and using OpenSolaris in EC2 also available in Sun’s Amazon EC2 Getting started guide – in this post I will focus almost in SGE using in Amazon EC2. As SGE distributive i use all-in-one tar package – i choosed “All supported platform” in Grid Engige download page – it takes about 350 Mb, but I don’t worry about platform architecture – if sun support it – it will be in this package. This ge62u2_1.tar.gz contains bunch of other tar.gz’s ( and even hedeby’s core package ) and can be unpacked by :

root@ec2-server:~/tools/archive# gzip -dc ge62u2_1.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

So I just go inside ge6.2u2_1 and unpack them all using something like this

for myfile in *.tar.gz

gzip -dc $myfile | tar xvpf -

done

One important thing – hedeby-1.0u2-core.tar.gz contains old versions of some files from ge-6.2u2_1-common.tar.gz – there’s conflicts in files common/util/arch and common/util/arch_variables – here’s diff for them – may be sometimes it can be usefull, but for my configuration it causes very strange errors when I try to install executor host :

value == NULL for attribute “mailer” in configuration list of “ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com”

./inst_sge[261]: Translate: not found [No such file or directory]

./inst_sge[263]: Translate: not found [No such file or directory]

./inst_sge[264]: Translate: not found [No such file or directory]

When I replace this files from ge-6.2u2_1-common.tar.gz installation works as expected. Next point it’s DNS configuration – SGE is very picky to DNS and it will cause some problems in running SGE Amazon EC2 instances with SGE, this stuff can be fixed using host_aliases file in SGE, or other way it’s to use /etc/hosts file for it – some kind of this technique used in Hedeby-SGE on Amazon EC2 demo, for example if we have master this name and 2 executor hosts I put this lines into /etc/hosts :

#internal_ip external_full_name external_short_name internal_full_name internal_short_name
10.yyy.xyz.zzz ec2-RRR-TTT-ZZZ-YYY.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-RRR-TTT-ZZZ-YYY domU-mm-ww-PPP-WWW-FFF-GGG.compute-1.internal domU-mm-ww-PPP-WWW-FFF-GGG
10.yyy.qwe.ttt ec2-aaa-bbb-ccc-ddd.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-aaa-bbb-ccc-ddd domU-mm-ww-JJJ-HHH-DDD-SSS.compute-1.internal domU-mm-ww-JJJ-HHH-DDD-SSS
10.yyy.pre.ppp ec2-yyy-rrr-eee-qqq.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-yyy-rrr-eee-qqq domU-mm-ww-UUU-III-OOO-PPP.compute-1.internal domU-mm-ww-UUU-III-OOO-PPP

Also I use hostname ec2-RRR-TTT-ZZZ-YYY ( external_short_name ) to set instance hostname – this names I use as hostnames when I configure SGE.

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Installing Sun Grid Engine on Amazon EC2